Word: chabonã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...story hasn’t ended with the novel’s conclusion. The narrative’s fantastic success and Chabon??€™s continued interest in exploring comics—seen in his screen story credit on Spider Man 2—inspired Dark Horse Comics to commission The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, a sporadically published anthology of comics. A sixth issue emerges from Dark Horse in April...
Here’s the premise: after the end of Chabon??€™s novel’s plot, Kavalier and Clay drop the Escapist project and leave the comic in the hands of other writers. The creation bounces around from firm to firm—but each company that takes on the project soon finds itself filing for bankruptcy. Perhaps there is something inherently flawed in the idea of a character who is a cut-rate Houdini knockoff representing an organization called The Golden Key battling the evil forces of The Iron Chain...
...anthology’s most successful stabs will appeal even to readers who have not read Chabon??€™s original novel. And the anthology doesn’t need to be read chronologically—in fact, several sections are better skipped. But ultimately, comic readers will be pleased that Chabon plucked the Escapist from the pages of his prose and rendered him anew in living color. And for those who first fell in love with the Escapist and his creators in the context of Kavalier and Clay, the adventure continues?...
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